School Gym Mats

Options for Gym Mats for School

A school gymnasium hosts a wide range of athletic activities, from physical education classes to basketball, wrestling, or volleyball games and matches. Unfortunately, most gyms have unforgiving walls made of bricks or concrete blocks, which makes relying on Greatmats’ gym mats for a school the best way to keep all the students and athletes safe if they make contact with the wall. Our school gym mat options are available in a range of sizes, thicknesses, and colors.

Types of School Gym Mats

Our school gym mats are available in a range of different formats.

Folding Mats

By stacking or unstacking the sections of our folding mats, you can adjust the thickness and coverage size of the mat on the fly to match the activity.

Roll Out Mats

Roll out mats are available to cover long narrow runways. You can connect multiple roll out mats with tape to cover a large space. We offer pre-cut standard lengths and custom-cut lengths.

Crash Mats

Crash mats are especially thick and forgiving, protecting kids who may fall from height. Special education classrooms might use crash mats to protect kids with special needs from falling and hurting themselves.

Wall Mats

Wall mats attach to the gymnasium wall or a quiet room wall, protecting students who might crash into the wall.

Pole and Beam Padding

If areas of the school gymnasium, wrestling room, weightlifting room, or cheer room have hard columns or posts, wrap-around post padding protects kids from inadvertent collisions.

Features and Benefits of Gym Mats for Kids

One of the biggest benefits of our gym mats for kids is you can add a custom logo or lettering on the cover.

Select school colors in the vinyl covering on the physical education mats when you add the logo, and you’ll have the perfect combination to drive school spirit. Some of the colors available include:

• Black
  
• Blue
  
• Gray
  
• Green
  
• Orange
  
• Pink
  
• Purple
  
• Red
  
• Tan
  
• White
  
• Yellow

With different thicknesses of mats for sale available, you can select the perfect level of cushioning for each activity.

Use Types for Wall and Floor Mats for Gyms

Our wall and floor mats for gyms are appropriate for a variety of activities and classes, including:

• General PE classes
  
• Physical education instruction
  
• Fitness activities
  
• Wrestling
  
• Martial arts
  
• Cheerleading
  
• Gymnastics
  
• Tumbling

Gym Mats for School Q&A

Does Greatmats offer custom-sized wall pads for school gyms?

Yes, Greatmats has custom-sized wall mats for school gymnasiums. One of our customers, Holy Family School, has a 135-year-old gymnasium in the school with brick walls. Adding our PE mats to the walls made using the basketball floor safer for all the students. The custom-sized mats were perfect for the unusual wall shapes in this vintage gym.

Does Greatmats have flooring options for cheerleading competitions and practices for high schools?

Yes, Greatmats has flooring for cheerleading competitions and practices for high schools and middle schools. One of our customers is the Greeneville, Tenn., school district. Greeneville Middle School bought roll out cheer mats for its competition team. Initially, the Greeneville High School cheer team shared mats with the middle school, but the athletes loved the quality of the mats so much that the high school bought its own mats.

Where would you use pillar padding in a school gym?

You would use pillar padding in a school gym around any posts or columns that are part of the competition area. Pillar padding commonly appears on basketball goal support posts just beyond the end line for the basketball court. Volleyball teams could use pillar padding to wrap the net support posts on either side of the volleyball court.